C ALAN JOHNSON REBBECA PRINT FIGURINE COMBO SIGNED MINT

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C ALAN JOHNSON REBBECA PRINT FIGURINE COMBO SIGNED MINT

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Sold Date: 07/19/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

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*** Great Alaskan Collectibles! This Is A Wonderful C. Alan Johnson Signed Print And Matching Figurine!

A wonderful way to start your C. Alan Johnson Collection. The prints are seldom offered on eBay!

The print as framed is 12" by 15", The actual exposed art inside the matting is 8 1/2" by 11". It is in full color with C. Alan Johnson's original signature. The art is titled Arctic Summer and the subject is Rebbeca. The date is 1984 and it is in perfect mint condition.

I always go over the items I acquire with a watchful eye. The figurine is in perfect mint condition with even felt the pad on the feet still intact. She is 5 5/8" tall, 5 1/2" wide and is 2 1/2" deep. The date is 1983.

I have exchanged emails with Keith Johnson. He was a wealth of information. I will add it below as he has already ok'd it for my auction listings.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, My wife and mother~n~law believe that your works are produced in Alaska. I didn't think so I surfed your website. I can't find that info anyw

Now I'm curious. W are your nice items produced? Warm Alaskan Regards, Scott

Keith's Response............ (Ya just gotta love the professional family)! They really have done my heart good!! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In 1958 Alan and Suzanne started their work in a 0ne bedroom converted garage in Seattle. The 220 outlet in the kitchen played double duty for both the oven and the kiln. The Kitchen table was the casting table and the family [my sister brother and I] all ate around the coffee table that my father had built. In 1959 we moved to Bainbridge Island, WA. across Puget Sound from Seattle. As it turned out, their neighbor was good friends with Howard Rock, a Point Hope villager who had been out of Alaska for many years. Coincidently My parents had earlier come to terms with the fact that they needed to know more about the people they were depicting. They had studied the possibility of traveling to, of all places, Point Hope. Howard wrote a letter of introduction to his family and they arranged a home for us to rent. In 1961 Alan and Suzanne purchased airline tickets, 1/3 down on 1 way, for the entire family and for Howard as well. My father had shipped off everything he had produced and sent a letter with the shipment telling our customers that we wouldn't be able to come home if they didn't pay up. We spent a wonderful spring whaling season t Even though I was only 3 at the time, even now I have some very vivid memories. My brother Brian was so taken by the journey that he, even at 6, was convinced that he would one day return to Alaska. He later moved to Kodiak in 1980 and spent 20 years t, raising his family. The trip to Alaska proved to be the continuing inspiration for all these years. Alan and Suzanne studied the possibilities of moving up. Unfortunately in the 1960s the shipping of supplies proved problematic. Glaze could not be aloud to freeze. Even while living in Washington we had to order glaze in the spring so that it wouldn't freeze on the train. Plaster and clay had to be kept dry dry dry, of it would fail. And the cost in 60's was prohibitive. Alan and Suzanne kept their dream. When the 70's rolled around they let the dream go. In 1972 they had hired their first 2 employees. We kids continued to work as well, after school. My sister Laurie had graduated by then and was working full time as a china painter. She was slowly taking over office tasks. By now the business was firmly entrenched on Bainbridge Island. I came on full time in 1983 as a mold maker, leaving my job with the Washington State Ferries. In 1990 it became apparent that we had outgrown the building behind my parentâe(tm)s house. They purchased a piece of property within the small town of Pou...